Sorrow Quotes

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. (Dante Alighieri)
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. View quote
William Blake
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. View quote
Mark Twain
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. View quote
Jack Kerouac
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. View quote
Robert Frost
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy. View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. View quote
Lord Byron
For there is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and to have recovered hope. View quote
George Eliot
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. (Washington Irving)
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,-though I shall not be near thee; Sing,-though I shall never hear thee! View quote
Charles Wolfe
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow. View quote
John Fletcher
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. View quote
Agatha Christie
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. View quote
David Hume
The busy bee has no time for sorrow. View quote
William Blake
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? View quote
William Blake
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. View quote
H. L. Mencken
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up. View quote
Ivo Andrić
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. (Herman Melville)
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. View quote
Victor Hugo
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Good-night, good-night parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say good-night till it be morrow. View quote
William Shakespeare
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. View quote
Leo Tolstoy